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If you have a product or…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

If you have a product or service company and are thinking about promoting a Black Friday deal, Alex Denning has some good advice and offers some suggestions.: Alex suggests focusing "on putting together a great sale package, rather than a…

Yoast has entered a partnership with…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Yoast has entered a partnership with SEMrush. SEMrush is a large provider of SEO tools and powers some features that are already found in Yoast SEO 15.1. 🤝

I spotted this tweet from Joost…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

I spotted this tweet from Joost de Valk sharing research from a post by eMarketer where they found signs eCommerce is "jumping ahead by two years" because of COVID. 🏃‍♂️ 🏬 The article is worth a read, but I'm also…

Lainey Feingold makes the case that…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Lainey Feingold makes the case that the proposed Online Accessibility Act legislation working through the US Congress is bad for digital inclusion. Right now disabled people can now file lawsuits about websites and apps that aren't accessible to them, but…

Joe Casabona shares his landing page…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Joe Casabona shares his landing page checklist which includes the essentials: headline + text, 2 CTAs, a bio + photo, trust logos, testimonials, long-form text, an email subscription form (or special content in exchange for an email address), and FAQs.…

Here is a nice plugin from…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Here is a nice plugin from Kailey Lampert that checks for the existence of "do not publish" in the post title and stops the post from being published if that text is found. 🙅‍♀️

Neale Van Fleet shows off a…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Neale Van Fleet shows off a nice trick for making a realistic motion blur in CSS in between transitions.

Sucuri has found some malware that…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Security

Sucuri has found some malware that can disable security plugins to avoid detection. 😨 This is really devious! Luke Leal explains: "If a user tries to reactivate one of the disabled security plugins, [the Malware] will momentarily appear to activate…

Roel Magdaleno has created his first…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Roel Magdaleno has created his first npm CLI command for getting statistics about plugins and themes at WordPress.org. 📈

Great Twitter thread here from Chris…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Great Twitter thread here from Chris Herd on lessons learned from speaking to over 1,000 companies over the past 6 months about their plans for remote work. 👩‍💻 Just one sample: "Headquarters are finished: companies will cut their commercial office…

If you have ever had a…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

If you have ever had a problem with dates and MySQL, then you might have had a WTF MySQL moment. 🤯

Salvatore Sanfilippo has a brief but…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Design

Salvatore Sanfilippo has a brief but insightful take on "the open source paradox," which is "the proportionality between the money people give you for coding something, and the level of demand for the quality they can claim to have about…

Leonardo Losoviz has shared his discovery…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Leonardo Losoviz has shared his discovery of Rector and transpiling in PHP. 🐘 A transpiler is “a type of translator that takes the source code of a program written in a programming language as its input and produces an equivalent…

This week the Google Search On…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

This week the Google Search On event

📅 Conference and Event Updates WooSesh…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

📅 Conference and Event Updates WooSesh took place this week on October 13 and 14th. The videos will be available soon for WPSession members. WP Agency Summit also happened this week from October 12 to 16th. Videos are available until…

Might as well go for the gusto?

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2020

Hosting

WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy has submitted a ticket to make a change on the WordPress hosting page: I would like to update the final sentence in the second paragraph. If you don’t need the flexibility of a full web…